Eddie Gil risking contempt, Bro. Eddie’s camp says

The Bangon Pilipinas Movement (BPM) of evangelist Eduardo Villanueva is confident that self-proclaimed billionaire Eddie Gil and his lawyers would be charged with contempt of court for bringing their "funny antics" to the highest court of the land.

Gil, standard-bearer of the Partido Isang Bansa Isang Diwa, was earlier declared a nuisance candidate by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

BPM chief legal counsel Jordan Pizarras said Gil should prepare for the consequences of his actions, specifically the submission of his bank certificate to the Supreme Court (SC).

"It is apparent even to the untrained eye that the document submitted by the petitioner (Gil) and his lawyers showing a deposit of 10 billion American dollars is nothing but a fake," Pizarras said in their comment to the SC on Gil’s appeal.

According to the BPM lawyer, Gil was no longer being funny when he submitted the document to the SC.

"He is now contemptuous and he surely cannot get away with it," he said.

Pizarras told The STAR that they had checked and verified with the bank where Gil claimed he had the account and "discovered it was a fake certificate."

"It was one of a long list of documents that Mr. Gil had been eager to show to the gullible as proof of his outrageous claims that he is a multibillionaire who can pay off the country’s P5.6 trillion of debts," he explained.

Pizarras also called Gil a swindler who was convicted of large-scale estafa and illegal recruitment. He noted that Gil also has 18 other pending cases with the National Bureau of Investigation.

The BPM lawyers have used this background of Gil in their petition for his disqualification, which was granted by the Comelec.

Pizarras said lawyers of Gil should be made accountable for their toleration of Gil’s "spurious claims."

"By their complicity in making the submission, the lawyers of Mr. Gil have become criminally and administratively liable for submitting a spurious or falsified document in a judicial proceeding. They should be investigated for misleading the (SC)," Pizarras said in his comment.

He said that "one of Gil’s lawyers has previously been severely reprimanded by this Court for gross carelessness. Maybe this time he should be meted a more severe penalty."

The SC has issued a status quo order recently on the motion for reconsideration filed by Gil against the Comelec decision that disqualified him from the presidential race.

Pizarras said he was perplexed why Gil was continuing with his campaign in the face of the status quo order.

"He was already disqualified by Comelec when he filed the motion with the SC. So, the status quo order means he remains disqualified from the presidential race," he explained.